On 03.07.2012 11:58, Josef Spillner wrote: [] > Currently, the qemu-kvm package has many tight dependencies which are useful > on desktop systems (SDL, pulseaudio, SPICE etc.) but less useful on headless > or > embedded virtualisation setups. Approximately 67 MB of space are claimed by > the > package and its dependencies. For the time after wheezy, I'd like to express > my > interest to see either more dependencies turned into recommendations or the > creation of a light-weight qemu-kvm-minimal package.
For the time after wheezy, qemu-kvm package is going away, being replaced completely by qemu package. And there, it is already too much variations and subpackages being built, I'm not sure the savings are worth the extra complexity. Besides, it is unclear which features to turn off, -- once such a minimal package will be created, users will request some "small" external dependencies (you mentioned spice already, which is very good candidate for a headless server; also think about iscsi, rbd/sheepdog and other really small things) to be added back. Speaking of turning dependencies into recommendations -- this is highly unlikely to happen, since it requires modifiyng upstream code to load stuff dynamically instead of relying on regular linker. You may, however, send patches upstream to implement that -- some stuff (notable block device drivers) can easily be loaded on demand. Thanks, /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
